What did your (great)grandpa do between 1939-1945?

My great grandpa entered the army in 1945, 3 days into the battle of Berlin. He wasn’t German, he was American, which meant he missed literally the entire war in Europe by the time he was out of training and missed the entire war in the Pacific by the time he’d be able to get on a ship and deployed.
Since he was a fire Lieutenant and already had 3 kids at that point, as well as being old for someone in the army (I think 32 or 33), they sent him to Fort Knox, which he guarded with a fake rifle because all the real ones were sent overseas.
Demobilized in December. I don’t even think he served a full 8 months
This anon gets it

kek nice job

i come from a long line of draft-dodging opportunists

Gooks were allowed to serve in Kempeitai?

My paternal grandpa fought in Sicily during WW2
My maternal grandpa fought in Korea during the Korean War
My great-grandparents were farmers and entrepreneurs. They didn't fight in any wars

He was in the navy and visited Glenndanzig

HE WAS A JAPANESE MP

Was your parent conceived consensual?

Paternal one was probably busy exploiting peasants
Maternal one was working in Japan

Farming and raising family.

great grandpa on my mother's side (grandpa of my mother) was too old to serve, he had been an officer in WW1 and worked a civilian job during WW2
grandpa on my father's side worked in a uniform factory and therefore only had to serve briefly, apparently he was a soldier during the occupation of France
I think my dad told me that on his mother's side there was also one relative who died at the end of the war in Yugoslavia, perhaps it was my paternal grandma's father, I'm not sure, she died when I was 7 and I never got to talk to her about it

One was captured in Leningrad, other one was injured on the Eastern front then got transferred to the balkans to the Division Brandenburg as halftrack driver fighting Titos partisans. At the end of the war they fled westwards from the advancing Russians and surrendered to the burgers

Running from stalin regime

He had a family and based on this picture a demon child

BASED

one year after 1945 but he was fighting in indo-china

YES

they sent him to Fort Knox, which he guarded with a fake rifle

wtf?

My paternal grandfather was a tankist in Libya and was captured in 1942, he then spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Kenya
No clue about my mum's side

probably herding sheep in his village

Nice try ;)

Grandpa was mobilized and was armed just in time to surrender. He became friends with a German soldier named Hans who helped out on the farm. When the war ended, Hans was happy because it meant he could go home to Germany and be with his family, who had survived :)

changed is surname

Nothing but one of my great-uncles was a British commando who fought in France.

shovelling coal into naval boats

What do you guys think of koreans who served japs during ww2? It seems like koreans were kind of okay with jap occupation.

germans still controlled norway and Denmark by the end of the war.

Interesting

Firstly he went to Grodno and then retured. Then he was working On the Fields

>germans still controlled norway and Denmark by the end of the war.

Interesting

Yes, German generals wanted to quit Norway and move the troops to Germany but it was not to be.

Worked in the dockyards and was made exempt from fighting

IM PROUD OF MY GRAMPS I DONT CARE WHO SAY WHAT. KOREANS OPINIONS DISCARDED STUPID PEOPLE

he was a surveyor for the british army then got captured for the rest of the war

he was marrying his third wife who was 16 years younger than him

My cousin's great grandpa was a government general official who married Japanese and her father feels uncomfortable about that his grandpa was a "collaborator"
I think accusing anyone who was a public employee during Japanese occupation as a national traitor is kinda retarded. Modern Koreans tend to conveniently forget that improving the position of ethnic Koreans by contributing to the empire was seen as much more feasible and realistic option than independence at that time

Great grandfather was a dentist and member of the NSDAP. His father was a Fregattenkapitän in the Kriegsmarine, came out of retirement and served in Kiel during the war.
Another great grandfather was a Danube Swabian, and served with the SS in Yugoslavia. Not too sure about the British ones, probably farming or something like that.

grandpa

being 16 and getting pressed into service for Waffen SS

Hitleryugend?

My grandfather was training with a bamboo spear in preparation for a battle on the mainland.

Milkman

What did he do after the war?

other one got blinded by grenade shrapnel during the last few weeks of winter war (so early 1940) and i havent heard much about what the other one did (he didnt talk about it) but i know he got shot in the leg during the continuation war
both died before i was born so all i know is what my grandparents and parents have told me

Great grandpa shot jews for the Germans, shot Germans for the Soviets made it to Poznan somewhere before being recalled, after the war worked for the MGB by doing nothing while working in a factory. He wasn't tried and no one knew what he did because he said he was just a farmer when soviets came, there was no one around to testify he served in the German Auxiliary police so that's that.

One great grandpa (father's father's father) was working as miller to secure food production
One (mother's father's father) was horseman in war, and during the war got extra vacation because he and his pal were able to capture group of enemies.
Dont know what other two were doing.

And about grandpas, one (father's father) wasnt born yet, and another (mother's father) was kid so he helped taking care about stuff at home

dunno bout gramp 1 but gramp 2 was sent to a farm in Germany. Apparently the owners weren't nazis, just a chill couple. He got himself a polish gf there.

Farming.
Go back.

One of my great granpas went in a forest and hunted invasive species from both sides.

He was a cook on the eastern front

youtube.com/watch?v=5U1SO3ddgdM
based grandpa

Niggas on here be saying "my grandfather "
Bro like how old are you? 40?

Great-grandpa was from Germany

served in the Wehrmacht, wounded on the Western front and sent home

despised the Nazis

got in an argument with the local party bureaucrat in his village and beat him up

Yeah, like im 30 and my oldest grandparent was just starting his first grade in 1939.

Paternal-paternal one (dad's dad's dad) was a dirt poor traveling wedding cook in rural South India, paternal-maternal (dad's mom's dad) one was a doctor in rural South India with the railways
Maternal-paternal one (mom's dad's dad) was a lawyer or law clerk in a city about 500 miles north of the city my parents met in but moved down to said city in his lifetime
Maternal-maternal one was a poor something in South India, not sure what but I do know my maternal grandma grew up dirt poor with lots of siblings

I am a 38 year old man

This lol, my older grandpa was born in 1942 I think (he was dead by the time I was born)

I turned 37 6 days ago.

t. OG 06 oldfag

IDK. I don't even remember his birth year. have it written down somewhere. other family member said he was in the Waffen SS. from when I figured this stuff last, I only remember that he must have been around 16 by the end of the war.
so no, that was not elite. that was a hail mary on their part, drafting teenagers who were old enough to start learning a trade in earnest.
he was a farmer boy.

Why do millennials still use this board? Are y'all pedos to be hanging around a board obviously built for 18-30 yr olds?

SAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR

great-grandpa

Farm

grandpa

Work as pilot (maritime) then in a factory

Sounds like he was a piece of shit

Congrats on learning to read English, pidor

Anon Babble belongs to us zoom zoom, you're just visiting. Also contrary to what many of you would like to believe you don't automatically accumulate a wife and family as you get older and thus must find something to fill the lonely hours.

show tummy, faggot

Hitlerjugend was compulsory for every German kid and teen

This place would be deader than dead if it was only zoomers and Gen A

My grandfather was born in 1917

saar you are brown you dont look like that

How did you end up all the way in amerikkka saaaaarr

True, I'm not white so I still have all my hair
And I'm clean shaven
But I wear glasses and have an oval face just like Mr. Woah Jack

fair enough but you are not allowed to appropriate white culture like that in your posts, it is very disrespectful

My parents lifted their families out of poverty in the big city and the economic boomtimes of the 90s after India liberalized but started hitting the glass ceiling of being stuck in thirdieland upper middle class (because they had no family ties or connections to anybody important)
They thought the move to America would be temporary to make some money and move back

Unfortunately I'm now a retard failson with a drinking and smoking problem who chases tail on the weekends to feel alive while masquerading as a med student in the workweek

he went to north africa, took some pics of camels and hanged arabs(which i still have), was made prisoners from the english, which trated him really bad and make prisoners eat only potato peels, was taken to south africa. after a while prisoners were passed to americans, which treated him really well. he was talekn to san francisco o algo, they make him "work" in the day, in reality he faked working, he managed to find an american gf. He was going to marry her for the green card, but americans said he would have to first go to italy and then reimmigrate. He was taken back to italy by an english ship. In the process british sailors stole all his valuable personal goodsand money. When back to italy he saw his mother was about to die, so in order to inherit the house he never left the house, find my grandma and merried her. The american gf sent by mail a lot of letters and also personal gifts (which I still have)

Forgot to say till his last days he always talked bad about the english, saying they are really vile and very good of americans. He was an ameriboo

Is that you Pi?
wtf why are britishers like this?

he was a portuguese farmer

he said he made a lot of money because americans paid american wages to prisoners but the english stole it when they inspect his backpack before embarking

Arielle is that you?
Yeah, but what's with the potato peels?

Classic English behavior, their whole empire was built on looting from brown pypo like this.

I look like him but a little more muscular and very very dark brown skin and I wear glasses
I am darker brown than most black people in my city
Unironically this is my skin tone I just ain't fat

Also when he got angry he alsays said to my grandma he shuld have marrried the americans that had a huge house mc mansion

the british were stingy and put prisoners in tents in concentration camps in south african desert only feeding them potato peels

I actually agree with the English for once, you shouldn't be rewarded for fighting on the side of evil

le good guys

sipped fermented Date Palm Tree Syrup under The olive Trees' Shade

Both grandpas were too young to fight, although in last few weeks they wanted to make 10yo grandpa fight, at which point he ran for some woods and hid.
Great grandparents, one was captured in russia, one was a customs officer in france due to having an injury, another one idk much about but he was a heavy alcoholic after the war. Last one, no clue

Shot Soviets during the winter and continuation wars.

One great-grandfather was a policeman, so they refused to mobilize him, even when he asked to. However he was the only one of his six brothers who survived the war. The second great-grandfather fought for the Bolsheviks against the Basmachi during the Civil War and also fought in the Second World War until 1945, he reached Poland, I don’t remember the exact place where he ended it.
The third great-grandfather was the chairman of a collective farm, but because of some incident in 1940 he was imprisoned and sent to Siberia, where he sat until 1948.
The fourth great-grandfather went through the entire war from 1941, starting near Moscow, then reached Lithuania and after that he was also sent to fight on the Japanese front, which is why he returned home in November 1945.

In Germany even children have good weapons. My grandfather had already despaired while making bamboo spears.

Do they make toddy wine in Libya

This sounds like a country song

People who magnet fish still pull parts of those out of the rivers lol

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My father's dad fought the Japanese and my great-uncle was mobilized to Europe, I don't know much about my mother's dad, I think he was teaching in schools or maybe just farming.

one was captured in russia

Did he make it back to Germany?

Iran was siding with Nazi Germany.
That's why we got invaded.

I am 30 and my grand father was born in 1925. At 17, he faked his birth certificate to say he was 18 so he could go to war. He was in the navy and fought in the Pacific.
My other grand father was also born in 1925 but didn't get drafted for WW2, but fought in the Korean war (but was only an office clerk over there).

Guard duty on a supply airstrip in what is now Dubrovnik. Did pretty much fuck all except shooting at the woods to keep Croatian partisans from stealing shit. Germans came after Italy changed sides to make them say hail Hitler and they're soldiers of Reich now. Whole squad refused, said we're the King's men not Mussolini and not Hitler
All of them were deported to concentration camp. I still have all the documents. The prisoners would work on maintaining railways and trains, and if they agreed to become Nazi loyalists, they would get more food and days off to leave the camp. Everyone was issued a sort of stamping card for this - my grandpa's was empty.
War ended and he had to walk all the way back from Baden Wutterberg to Italy, showing that all that work on railways was fucking useless in the end.

grandpa was learning mechanics to fix tractors
or was still helping his dad mack then in his mill, dont know the years

This was my paternal grandfather btw
Maternal grandfather was a fascist policeman tasked with rooting out draft dodgers. He later made dealings with partisans to "find" some of them every now and then who were actually infiltrators and would "escape" after stealing stuff or information. He did it to save his own skin of course no patriotic or anti fascist sentiment.

My great grandfather was long dead by then. My grandfather was born in 1889 and was himself quite aged by then. As far as I know he was just living in wyoming having lots of kids throughout

the 4 of them:

got drunk and was a deadbeat dad

got drunk and died from alcohol-related complications

was a blacksmith

idk

Mom's side was a RAF Hawker Hurricane pilot dad's side was a US Army P-38 Lightning pilot.

If your grandpa was born before the turn of the century then your father was the one involved in the war. What did he do?

No, my father was born in the 50's. My grandfather was a prolific man and continue to concieve children late into his 60's, with my father being one of his last. He was literally excommunicated from the church for fornicating too much as a young man and kicked out of his home village in the basque country. That's how he ended up in the US

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